The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1877, Page 5

SITTING BULL. _——— The United States Commission Arrive at Fort Walsh. THEY MEET THE SIOUX CHIEF An Abrupt and Disdainful Dismissal the Result. A PAINFUL AND WEARY MARCH Two Days’ Journey Without Clear Fresh Waiter. THE TERRIBLE BAD LANDS. Meeting of the American and British Officer's. A DASHING RETINUE AND ESCORT. Appearance of Fort Walsh and Its Surroundings. THE INDIAN CAMPS AND TEPEES. Remarkable Scene at the Meeting of the Com- mission and the Sioux. ee (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] For? WaLsu, NortHWEs? TERRITORY, Oct. 18, Via HELENA, M.'T., Oct, 21, 1877. The United States Commission sent out by the overnment to find and treat for peace and good will with the Sioux chief Sitting Buil, has at length succeeded in coming face to face with the re- doubtable Indian chieftain and have failed to bring him to any terms In short, the commission has met Sitting Bull and Sitting Buil has dismissed it abruptly and disdain- fully. The expedition has failed in its purpose and the Sioux question Is as far from a satisfactory Solution as when General Terry and his brother commissioners first set out on their long and tedious journey to the Northwest. It is sad to be Compelled to thus preface my despatch, but truth compels the admission. THE GIORIOUS DELAYS ENCOUNTERED. The Sitting Bull Commission, which left the city of St. Paul, Minn., early on the afternoon of the 14th of September, met on its long journey hither with @ series of delays, which were cheerfully ac- tepted because they were glorious delays. Glo- rious because they were rendered so by the bril- Mant and hard-won victory of the troops under General Nelson A. Miles at the Bear Paw Mountains Over the indomitable Chiet Joseph and his band bf Nez Percé Indians. This battle at the foot of the mountains obliged General Terry to part with nearly all his personal escort for a time, as the troops were needed to guard the supplies sent for- Ward to General Miles from Fort Benton, and so impeded the movements of the commission. IMPATIENT OF INACTIVITY. \ Both General Terry and General Lawrence be- came so inpatient at length at their entorced inac- tivity that they determined to move forward with what troops were leit them. The commission accordingly started out from Fort Benton north- ward on the 10th of October, as ulready telegraphed to the HzRALD, we having only fifteen or twenty infantry men with us. A DUCKING IN THE TEYON RIVER. Aiter a few mishaps, including the drenching of a part of its baggage in the waters of the Teton River, the party met its original escort on the 12th at the Springs, a desolate locality, holding a few wiserable pools of water in the midst of the vast travelless and woodless waste Northern Montana. The escort, when re- united, consisted of three companies of the Second regiment of cavairy, which had taken part in the fight with Joseph’s band of hostiles. This was under the command of Captain Geérge L. Tyler, of Company F. The commanders of the other two companies were Second Lieutenant Edward J. Me- Clernand and Second Lieutenant Lovell H. Jerome, the latter a native of New York. The whole escort ‘was under command of Major Henry B. Freeman, of the Seventh infantry. AN INCENTIVE FOR SPEED. A message received that night from Colonel Mc Leod, the Chiet Commissioner of the Dominion po lice force, announced that Sitting Bull had been induced to repair with a few of lis Sioux chiefs to Fort Waish, forty-five miles north of the Canadian of boundary, where it was believed he would consent to hold a conference with the American commus- sion. This news came very welcome and natu- Tally spurred the Commissioners into mereased speed, and induced them toenter on @ series of hasty and forced marches. “A TWo DAY'S HURRIED JouRNEY. The ensuing two days were consumed in travel ling forward at a tolerably Tapid pace across the Jonesome and forbidding Bad Lands, the animals npon which we depeded to carry us to our destinal lion, drinking oc ionally from the alkaline pools encountered from time to time on the toilsome route, Dry camps—i ¢., camps where no decent drinkable water could be obtained—were made on ourhaiting for the night. The water in the can- teens carried by officers and men soon became acrid and paintul to the tongue and palate, MUDDY WATER AND QUICKSANDS. On the forenoon of the 15th the journey grew tatigaing in the extreme for want of wa ; but we were positively rejoiced on reaching a spot where We found afew holes containing some stag- nant water. About ten o'clock Ue next morning & muddy pool was encountered, but it being com- pietclv surrounded by quicksands the teams and horses were wholly unable to approach the pool with safety, Various devices were adopted, such es the digging of a jong trench and the sinking of numerous we the water necessary for the famishing mues and cav, alry steeds, But these efforts occupied consi sie time, wy) 1k was not until the honv of noon , to procure NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1877.—WITH SUPPLEMENT: that the water in the ditches and the remnant of a snow storm which had fallen Jeas than a week before our arrival satiated the thurst of the Com- mission, its escort and their weary beasts, and we’. again took the road. A BEAUTIFUL LAKE IN stair, While we were thus marching forward our eyes were gratified by the sight of Horse Lake, which appeared shining in the far distance as a beavtiful sheet of water. This was at first deemed to be the effect of a deceitful mirage, but it was at iength discovered to be @ reality, the lake being made up of a chain of swamps and ponds. ‘The first glimpse of the lake was had about one o'clock, our party passing it on the east and pushing forward rapidly northward over the desert, MEETING THE DOMINION POLICE. An hour later the Commissioners discerned some specks on the horizon, and as we advanced over the plain these specks were identified as the advance guard of the Dominion Mounted Police, sent for- ward to meet us on the line between Montana and Canadian territory. The Canadian line here is de- fined by an as yet invisible monument, and was, Indeed, but the abstract idea of a boundary be- tween the two great countries. A DREARY SCENE On that great plain there was nothing to meet the eye from horizon to horizon, in whatever di- rection it ranged, but one far reaching, dreary ex- panse of barren steppes, with here and there a couli, the dry bed of adried up stream. In the aira crow or a distant hawk were the only objects in view, as they hung circling above the carcass of a butfalo lying in the distance. On a hazy ridge the gaunt figure of a coyote could be discerned as the animal sat there gasping witn hunger and thirst in the midst of this wild and dreary expanse of waste land, which was only cheered by the cloudless blue sky above our heads. MEETING OF THE COMMISSION AND THE POLICE, As soon as the police were recognized General Terry left his escort and rode forward with Colonel Corbin, secretary of the commission, and Colonel Smith, his aid. General Lawrence and Major Freeman, commander ot the escort, followed in an ambulance, aud thus the United States Commis- sion sent to Sitting Bull went to salute the Cana- dian officials, who had by this time crossed the boundary to meet it, GENERAL TERRY AND COLONEL M’LEOD SALUTE, Colonei McLeod, whose fame asa gentleman and officer had reached the commission far below this latitude of forty-nine degrees north, approached General Tery on horseback, and, clad in his scarlet unitorm, at the head of a smail but brillant ret- inue, he passed the stone monument on the leit of the road and paused on United States soil to re- ceive his American guests, General Terry saluted him and both dismounted fnd shook hands. <A general handshaking then followed, which pleasant ceremony was partici- pated in by those who presently came up inthe second ambulance. Lieutenant Jerome, whose cavalry company, leaving the other companies behind, had alone escorted the commission on this day’s march, joined in these salutations, A CONFERENCE, A brief conference ensued between General Terry and Colonel McLeod and resulted in the Unitetl States infantry escort in charge of the Wagon train being permitted to proceed beyond the line, This infantry escort, though armed with Springfield rifles, was regarded as a band of strikers. The cavalry, under Lieutenant Jerome, were politely requested to halt at the boundary line. Very soon the escort of lancers brought down by Colonel McLeod were seen advancing, their red uniforms and the red and white pennants affixed to their Jances contrasting beautifully with the monotonous dun color of the plains. Halting, they formed on one side or the road and presented lances to the commission as it passed by them. Then the trumpet sounded and the greater part of the Canadian escort galloped to the front, the remainder swing- ing into the rear of the ambulances, With General ‘Terry and Colonel McLeod riding together at their head the commission, attendants and escort moved on at a lively trot, camping that night nearly forty miles*south from Fort Walsh. AN INTERNATIONAL CAMP, The Canadians and Americans slept soundly. Although the danger from hostile Indians had pre- sumedly ceased north of the British boundary the precautions taken by the Canadian commander were as thorough as if the camp had been menaced by a thousand warriors. Just as an advance guard and @ corps of flankers had been kept out during the afternoon march, s0 pickets were posted along the lines of the night camp and the reassuring call of “All's well !? rang musicaily through the dark hours. A SWIFT MARCH AND A MERRY ONE. The next day’s march was &@ swift one and broke down one or two of our wagon mules. Generals Terry and Lawrence, who had sent a special courier ahead to Fort Walsh with messages apprising Sitting Bull of their coming, were so resolved to réach the fort before nightfall that they would probably have sacrificed all the mules in the expedition to accomplish the journey. Colonel MacLeod’s stat, including Captain Crozter, Dre Kulbon and Sub-inspectors Melliree and Neale, made the afternoon march a merry one, until the region round about the Cypress Mountains was reached toward sunset. There the scarps of sev- eral low peaks were seen, Around their sides and bases dark fellage was visibie, and a stream (the north fork of Milk River) lowed along, burying it- self out of sight here and there among ciusters of asp ens, ARRIVAL AT FORT WALSH, Suddenly Fort Walsh came Into view, lying low in acnarming valley. No more romantic spot, no wilder scene, could impress a-traveller at the end of & Monotonous journey than the one that met our eyes. The fort, built by Major Walsh oniy two years ago, 18, notwithstanding its exceilence, of a form and aspect so quaint ana old as to remind one of the stories of the early Kentucky stockades. It ts, in fact, an irregular stockade of upright logs, inclosing ali the offices and buildings, Which are likewise bailt ot i necessary for the accommodation of a garri- son, Whitewashed on every part except Its rool, the fort nesties like the wild swan, which are numerous in its netghborhood, between the sur- A scraggly bus picturesque lit- Ue settiement adjoins it. THE COMMISSIONERS’ CAMP. The tents of were already nd flanked it on the south. The lodges of visiting Asgniboines were scattered aboutit, rounding heights. the Commission some The tepee brought by Sitting Bull himself stood As the received solitary and apart near {ts northern wall. Commission ente the fort it was with all the honors usually attending ‘the recep- tien of a general officer, Tue insistance of Colonel McLeod and Major Walsh compelled the whole United States party to accept the hospitality of the oificers, who have improved upon the pro- verbial British camaraderte. AN INFLUENTIAL OFFICER. We must really. regard Major Walsh as the only man in the Dominion of Canada who could, in the first place, have inducea such determined enemies of the white man as Sitting Bull and his followers to come on and interview the United States Com- mission, and, in the second place, to have enticed these wild and suspicious savages to bide a delay of considerable extent and await the approach of the Commissioners, The wild and romantic stories told of Major Walsh in the Canadian and United States newspapers have led some people to ques tion whether he really exercises the influence which it is claimed he possesses over the Indians of the Northwest. WHAT A BRAVE DIPLOMAT CAN DO, Nobody, however, would think of doubting Major Walsh's control over lus savage wards after being at this post for one hour. I must characterize him, from what [ have seen and heard, as one of the bravest and most remarkable diplomuts of his day. For he unites, with a tact absolutely essential to successful diplomacy, the courage and prudence ot muna required in all intercourse with a savage and supertitions people. If it is remembered that he now occupies a position {ull of difficulty and danger, wherein the least evidence of injustice or weakness would be regarded by the Indians as one of hostility or fear, the readers of the HERALD cun appreciate his merits. HIS CAREER IN BRIEF, Since Major Waish has done more than any other man to make and preserve peace amoig the wild- est tribes within the Canadian border, a brief sketch of his career becomes important in this con- nection. Although’a Canadian raised in Prescott, onthe St, Lawrence River, opposite Ogdensburg, he ts an Ametican in a broad sense, heart and soul When very young he was engaged in the militia ser- vice of Canada, and was always noted for his inde- Tatigable attention to the proper discharge of his duties, In 1866, being then on the Canadian militia Sta, he took a prominent part in repelling the Fenian raid, which, by its successful opening at the fight at Ridgeway, at one time threatened the most serious developments. In 1873 Major Walsh was equally active tn the organization of the Dominion mounted police, a civil force under military dis- cipline. GUARDING THE NORTHWEST. From the first, this organization having for its field of operations the immense northwest beyond Manitoba, and which ts inhabited by roving tribes of Indians, was devised to prevent and quell out- breaks between the varlous tribes and to repress Indian excesses against the scattered white settle- ments. Its range of patrol duty extended over many thousands of square miles of territory, inhabited by scores of Indian tribes and hundreds of wild and savage bands of half breeds and others who preyed upon Indians, whites and each other with absolute impartiality. In numbers the force of mounted police was ludic- rously small, and in its organization it was as though it could control the hordes of Indians on the Northwestern Plains in the same way and with the same unquestioned authority as the vicious classes are controlled in large cities by.small bodies of municipal police, MANAGING WILD INDIANS. To most men the task of arresting Indians on the plains and imprisoning or even putting them in irons for offences committed against the authority of the Queen, whose majesty had neverbeen clearly ex- Plained to them, would seem to be impossible. But Sub-Inspector Walsh, who has since become Major and full Inspector of Mounted Police, did not take any note whatever of impossibilities, He studied the character of the wild Indians carefully and in- fuenced his actions by methods exactly adapted to Indian ideas of authority and power. While he did not encourage them, he made tse of Indian super- stitions to strengthen lis influence, but he made use of them in 4 manner humane and beneticial to those he sought to control. When he arrived at the site of this post the Indian tribes of the Northwest territory were all hostile to each other and in continual strite. FINTERNCINE INDIAN STRIFE. The mountains dominating the valley fairly swarmed with redskins and the valley was their constant warpath. No white man thought of camping here, so flerce was the hostility of the Indians. Some three hundred lodges of Piegans and an equal number of Assiniboines were at actual war on his arrival, and the first thing Major Walsh did was to inform the chiefs of both tribes that if they wished to stay on this side of the border they must stop fighting and submit to the same laws which white men were compelied to obey. ENFORCING PEACE AND ORDER. He told them that the laws of the Dominion would protect Indians and whites alike, and he explained their tenor in the clearest possible manner. The chiefs assenting to his request the Major caused the head men of the Assiniboines, Cree, Saulteaux and Plegan tribes to assemble and shake hands, and peace was then and there proclaimed, KEEPING SITING BULL IN THE TRACES, When Sitting Bull and his band arrived in the Northwest territory last May Major Walsh went to his camp and talked Canadian law to him... He told him he must obey that law or he and his people would be ejected from the territory. Sitting Bull readily agreed to this, as did all the head men of his trive. BRINGING WHITE DOG TO REASON, On that occasion White Dog, a leader among the Assiniboines and a great friend of Sitting Bull, who had offered hima hundred and fifty horses to join him on a projected war expedition, rode into the camp. He had with himtwo warriors and five horses, Which Major Walsh recognized as having been stolen fiom the foot of the mountain, near the | fort. Without an instunt’s hesitation Walsh toid White Dog to get out of the saddle and deliver up the horses, A GREAT WARTIOR'S DIGNITY LOWERED. White Dog replied that he was @ great warrior and to humiliate himself. Major Walsh said, “If you don’t instantly dismount 1 declined will make you a prisoner and take you to the jort with me’? White Dog, observing the Major's quiet determination, at once dismounted, and Major Waish continued, sternly saying, “If ever you refuse to obey my order again I'll handewr you and have you punished to the full extentof the law. You must always remember that to gteal another man’s horse in this country is a crime that must be punished severely.” White Dog, with profuse apologies, retired from the Major’s presence a wiser man, GOOD MORAL EFFECT, ‘This scene occurring in the very camp of Sitting | Bul) and actually in the presence of the redoubtable Sioux warrior at once astonished and subdued his tribe, and they saw they must submit or take the consequences. Major Walsh after this became something more than @ hero im the estimation of Sitting Bull, and began to exert more powerful influence over him than the American soldiers Who were engaged against him would suppose to be possible. PERSUADING SITTING BULL TO RETURN. Itis no wonder, then, that when the Dominion authorities received the assent of the United States government to their proposition that a Special Commission should be sent to entice Sitting Bull back across the boundary Major Walsh was as- signed the delicate task of persuading him to meet and confer for the first time with the detested Americans, AN IMPLACABLE FOE, Sitting Buil, it must be remembered, is tne one leader among the hostile sioux who, after the retreat of 1863 and the pacification of the great Chiefs Red Cloud and Spotted 'Tail, with their banas, held out implacably against the whites and kept his people to their orginal habits of life in the willer- ness. He was never once known since that time to express @ solitary friendly word toward the Americans. He regarded them from tirst to last with an enmity so deep and terrible that it was fed by every eifort on their part to concillate him. It ‘was fanned intofames of hatred by the treacherous violation of treaties with other bands of Sioux by the United States government SITING BULL'S DISRESPECT YOR THE GREAT FATHER. The Great Father, a name to conjure with in the cases of other chiels, was a very inferior being to Sitting Bull in his own estimation. In the course of his long career he had never felt the Great Father’s power, and did not believe im it. In many a battle he had seen feeble and disjointed bands of United States soldiers vanquished with apparent case by his own people. He nad never known defeat in war, and began to consider himself invincible, The very last achievement of his forces before he retired to Canada for rest and recupera- tion was the utter overwhelming of Custer and the slaughter of his troops. EFFECT OF THE CUSTER MASSACRE. ‘The retreat to the Dominion may be said to have been rather the triumphant return of a conqueror than the retreat of a defeated chiel. He retired as a victor crowned with laurels and his untutored mind filled with a haughty disdain of his adversary, So great at this time was his renown among the whole Indian race, so mysterious had he be- come because of the fact that no white man save a few scouts had = ever beheld his countenance, that romance fairly flour. ished round his name, Yet Sitting Bull's real rank and influence in his tribe are all misconceived by the whites. The idea of him as a supreme and relentless warrior ising supreme control over his people must be replaced by a definition more subtle but in accordance with actual fact. SITTING BULL'S REAL POSITION IN HIS TRIBE. He has never been either a chief or a warrior and yet his influence over his tribe is stronger than that which he would exercise in either of these capacities. That his position may ve clearly under- stood you should comprehend the real and peculiar organization of his people. NATURE OF INDIAN GOVERNMENT. All the Indian tribes of the Plains bear a remark- ably strong likeness in their mode of government to the Arabs and Tartars and other Asiatic no- mads. Abstractly the mode may be termed pa- triarchal, but actually as it is practically carried out it is nearly pure republicanism, This is strictly true in the case of the bands of the Stoux now with Sitting Bull The several tribes represented among his warriors are the Uncpapas, Ogallallas, Minneconjous, Zanzacs, Black Feet, Two Kettles and Brules. They number in all, men, women and children included, some two thousand souls. There are out of this number eight hundred and more warriors. The camp thus made up acknowledges no one fudian as its abso- jute chief or ruler, Each family has its head, each band likewise. There is a war lodge in the camp and one warrior acknowledged as head soldier, THE HEAD SOLDIER, This head soldier is not Sitting Bull, but Long Dog, One of the most notorious of the Sioux chieta, Less than two years ago this merciless wretch burned two American soldiers alive atthe stake. as head soldier Even Long Dog’s oitice ex tends simply to the policing of the camp and to the direction of a mareh in case of a break-up of the camp. In time of battle there ts no chief warrior who exercises the same authority as that of a general in a European army over his troops. Even in the fight with Custer, tt is alleged by the chieis who participated in that memorable and savguinary struggle that no one among them controlied the rest or exercised any authority or command. They ali acted in perfect concert, but in asort of federal direction. FAMOUS WARKIORS, Among the chiefs of bands in sitting Bull’a camp, some threé days’ march from here, are several who ure famed in the stories of the recent Indian war. Among others Black Moon, Four Horns, One Horn, Red Horn, No Neck, Bear's Heal, Little Knife, Flying Bird, Lame Brule and Pretty Bear. The latter is the man who ts said to have taken Custer’s watch. These names are as familiar to Western trontiers- men as household words are in the East. tron Dog, another chief, 18 the oldest of the lot, but the greatest chief of all is Spotted Kagie, whom I shall presently describe among the leading men, Among the cluef men Who exert influence because of their talents and address, aud who are often chosen in- stead of the chiefs to make speeches in council or jin conference with the Jeaders of other tribes, are the Crow Medicine, Turns Around j and Little Assiniboine, Who is @ sort of sub-chiel. SITTING BULL AS NECROMANCER ‘The duties of Little Assimboine correspond with | those of the being whom Major Walsh calls a “cap. per” for amagician, By this expression the Major lets one into the “true inwardness” of Sitting Bull's relations to the wild and of tribe over exerts an almost unprecedented Though he is neither a chief warrior) Sitting Buil 1s a necromancer. “medicine man’ of such uncommon ability as to supersti- which he influence. nor a He isa tious remnants have retained his power for ten consecutive years. In this respect his position as the counsellor of his people is greater than that of any cabinet minister in the civilized worla, POLICY OF THE StOUX CHIEF. Yet his course has been extremely simple, He (CONTINUED ON NTH PAGEL.) THE WAR. Negotiations for the Surrender of Kars Opened, 3 ESS PUSHING ON TO ERZEROUM. Bravery of the Roumanians Before the Grivitza Redoubt. THREE DESPERATE ASSAULTS A Turkish Commissioner Sent to Paris Prepared to Treat for Peace. renee (Bz caBLE TO THE HERALD.} LONDON, Oct. 22, 1877. A despatch dated Katajal, Wednesday, says:—‘General Heymann is advancing on Erzeroum. Kars is surrounded, and nego- tiations for its surrender have been opened. The Russian headquarters Vezinkoi, are now at General Lazaroff is marching against Ismail Pacha.” TOO LATE, NO DOUBT, In consequence of Moukhtar Pacha's disaster all the troops in Constantinople are being sent hastily to Trebizond, Achmet Eyoub Pacha will go imme- diately to take Command at Erzeroum. THE ATTACK ON THE REDOUBT. A Russian oficial despatch from Gorny-Studen reports that in one of their assaults on Friday the Roumanians entered and occupied the second Grivitza redoubt before Plevna, but during the evening the redoupt was recaptured by the Turks, THREE ASSAULTS. Atelegram, dated Poredin, Saturday, says the Roumanians captured the redoubt on Friday after three vigorous assaults, but during the night the Turks, collecting all their forces, recaptured it after @ most sanguinary contest. It wasexpected that the fighting would continue on Saturday. THE LOSSES SMALL. A Russian oficial account reports the Ron, manian Joss on Friday at 5 oficers and 138 men, Another account says 50 were killed and 200 wounded. AN UNCONFIRMED RUMOR. A report was current in Bucharest last night that the Roumanians recaptured the second Grivitza redoubt on Saturday, but this is not confirmed. It is evident that as the redoubl was taken by the Roumanians and recovered by the ‘Turks on Friday, the losses of the former must be much heavier than oficially stated. WAS IT MINED? A member of the Red Cross Society told a corre- spondent that orders had been received to prepare the Turks had mined the redoubt, and, waiting until it was full of Roumanians, exploded it and then made their assauit. Itis thought fighting is still going on, and, in my opinion, the final resuit will be the capture of the redoubt by the allied forces.”” THE TURKS RETIRE UPON RASGRAD. A despatch from Torlak, dated Saturday, says the Turks have evacuated Kadikoi for fear that the Russians would block their communications w'th Rustchuk, and have retired to Rasgrad. Russian cavalry from the Dobrudscha have advanced as far as Kavarna. A later telegram from Rasgrad says a detach- ment of the army has arrived at that place; but the positions at Soenik and Kadikoi are retained for the present by the Turks. It seems evident’ however, that a retrograde movement has com- menced. Suleiman Pacha has gone to make a per- sonal inspection of the fortifications of Rustchuk. WHY SULEIMAN RETIRED. It seems as though the real reason for Suleiman’s retreat is that he found the Russians in too strong force. A telegram from Shuma, received itn Con- stanuinople, almost admits this, It says Suleman offered battle on severat occasions; the Russians, however, declined to accept the challenge, wish- ing rather to lure the Turks to unlavorable ground. Suleiman, however, prudently avoided the snare, and in cousequence of the want of water and the bad condition of the roads, which hinders transport, the army of the Danube on Friday retired upon Rasgrad. MAKING USE OF THE BULGARS. A Constantinople despatch says Suleiman Pacha telegraphs that the Russians have incorporated 18,009 Bulgarians into their army and that he ex- | pects to be attacked. A despatch from Vetova states that Suleiman Pacha has intrenched himself so as to cover Rust- chuk. Suleiman Pacha is about to send €olonel Valen- tine Baker and other English officers back to Con- stantinople. TALKS ABoUT MEBtATION. A Constantinople despatch says Aarif Pacha, the new Turkish Ambassador to Parts, 18 instructed to state tmmediately on his arrival the which Turkey would make peace if the Powers wish to mediate. | SEVERE ON A CORK INDENT. A Bucharest despatch say ‘A General Tevis, formerly in the American army, and now corr spondent of the New York Times, bas been ex. pelted from Roumania by the Rassian authorities because he served in the Turkish army during the Crimean war. This measure appears iil-advised and severe.’? terms on GENERAL EUROPEAN NEWS. RUMORS OF YRENCH MINISTERIAL CHANGES — LOCAL OFFICIALS TO BE RETAINED—LABOR TROUBLES ON THE CLYDE. . (BY CABLE TO THE MERALD.1 Lospox, Oct. 22, 1877. The Paris Gawois ahd Le Kappel maintain, in epite of denials, the truth of the assertion that the Ministry will resign on November 6. They even assert that of- forts are being made at the present moment to form & temporary Cabinet with General Berthaut, the prosent Minister of War, as President of the Council, and the Dake Decazes Minister of Foreign Afairs, | This Cavinet would be charged with the duty of pre- | senting President MacMabon's Message to the Cham- bers and asking the Chambers to vote the most im- portant taxes. LOCAL OVFICIALS TO BE RETAINED, Le Soliel staves that Minister Fourtou, receiving twonty Protects on Saturday, assured them that no 1 changes would be made ia the existing administrative 5 sta. The Prefects subsequently received the same assurance {rom President MacMahon and the Duke de Broglie. LABOR TROUBLES ON THE CLYDE, The lockout of the tronworkers in the Clyde ship- yards, who demanded an increase of wages, *gan on Saturday. The number affected as yet ts small, bat men Will be dismissed as the contracts expire. ‘There is great depression in the Forest of Dean {roa district. The forgemen of Forestvale received notice on Saturday that they must accept a five percent re duction of wages or terminate all contracts. Nearly all the strikers on the Great Southern and Westers Railway of Ireland bi ‘eturned to work, FAILURE OF GERMAN BANKERS. A Berlin corresponaent telegraphs that the Berlia bankers, Henckel & Lange, with @ capital of sevem millon marks, have been forced irto liquidation im consequence of the failure of the Ritterschattliche Bank. Their creditors hope to recover in tull alter some delay. GENERAL SHERMAN, AN INTERVIEW WHILE EN ROUTE FOR WASH< INGTON—THE INDIAN TROUBLES DECLARED SUSPENDED——-NECESSITY FOR AN INCREASR OF THE ARMY. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Cixcixxati, Ohio, Oct, 21, 1877, General W. T. Sherman, accompanied by Colonel Poe, his chief of engineers, passed through the city this morning en routs for Washington, fresh from the theatre of the late Indian war. Tbe General is looking remarkably well, and in conversation spoke of bis trip having been in the main a very pleasant one, though he had at times to eodure hardships of travel on the frontior to which he had vecn a stranger for many years. THE INDIAN TROUBLES. He regards the Indian troubles as suspended for the time, though thinking they will not be Gnally ended until our army 1s increased so a4 to enforce obedienge from them, His veliet is that the army should be filled up, not by formation of new regiments, but by enlarging those already 1p existeuce, There are offi- cors enough, gald he, but not mep enough to make its strength what is needed, Though the officers are generally of the best class of dghting men they need mere soldiers under them to be ablo to keep the Io- dians in check along the vast extent of our Western frontier, REORGANIZATION PAVORED, Without distinctly saying it in so many words, the General lett the impression, during his short stay here, that he 18 1p favor of reorganizing the army on tho English system, makjng euch regiment to consist of 4,400 men, and dividing it into three battalions, thus increasing the rauk very slightly, but more than doubling tho file. He was reticent, however, as to his exact views, apd did not guy that he would recommend this in bis report, which will be made out upon his arrival at Washington, SENATOR MORION. DR, BLISS CALLED TO THE BEDSIDE OF THE INVALID. Wastinaton, Oct, 21, 1877, Dr. Biles, of this city, last night lett for Indianapolis in response to the request of Senator Morton and family, who dosire his advice aud attention, although tt 18 nyt sald that any tumediate danger to the Scus- tor 1s apprebended, THE DAKOTA LEAGUE, Bostox, Oct, 21, 1877. ‘The Dakota League, which 18 composed of ladics aud gentlemen who are interested in Episcopal missions among Indians, observed its auuiveraary at Trinity Chareh this evening, ‘Thore was a largo congrogation, and addresses on tho work of the missions und the good accomplished thereby wore made by Bishops Hare und Whipple, of Minnesota, aud Rev. Dr. Hike man, ACCIDENT TO MISS BLAINE, Bosrox, Oct, 21, 1877. An Augusta (Me,) despatch says:—*Alice, the eldest daughter of Senator Blaine, was injured Saturday evening by the premature exposion of @ toy pistol She is quite comfortable, with a prospect of recovery. for the reception of 6,000 wounded, but this MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT, evidently is a gross exaggeration. “The toss npnee Wan Devantaeyr, is probably about elght or nine hundred,” Ovvice oy THK Culky SIGNAL Sine} continues. the correspondent. “It 1s said that Wasuixatox, Oct. 32—1 A. M. Indications. For Now England, cloudy and rainy weathot northerly winds, stationary or lower pressure and tomperature. For the Middle Atlantic States, cloudy and rainy, followed by colder, clearing weather, northerly wings and rising barometer. For tho South Atlantic States, colder cloar or partly cloudy weather, northwesterly winds and rising barometer, For the Gulf Stat westerly winds and temperature. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, rain areas, colder nortuerly winds and ristog barometer, followed by clearing weather, jailing barometer and warmer variable winds, For the lower lake region, cloudy woather, raig areas, northorly winds and stationary temperature and pressure, followed by clearing weather, variable winds and falling barometer, For the upper lake rogion, Upper Mississippi and Lower Miesourt valleys, clear, or partly cloudy weather, variable winds, shifting to warmer southerly, and stationary or falling barometer, ‘Tho rivers Will generally rise. Cautionary signals continue at Smithville, Cape Hatteras, Kitty Hawk, Capo Heary, Norfolk, Cape May, Baltimore, Atiantic City, Barnegat, Sandy Hook, New York, New Haven, New London, Newport, Wood’s Hole, thatcher’s Island and Boston, and are ordered jor Portland and Eastport. + partly cloudy weather, north- jonary or higher pressure and THR WEATUER YESTERDAY, The following record will show the changes In the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com parison with the corresponding date of last year, af indicated by the thermometer at Huduut’s pharmacy, Hekaty Building :— Asi aperature lor corresponding date las ARRIVALS. HOTEL General Robert C. Schenck, of Obio, is at the St James. Cvlonel tho Hon, Williaa Feilding, of England, and Captain Humilton Verry, of the steams ship Adriatic, are at the Everett, Albert Keep, Prost. dent of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Com. pany, is at the Windsor, Commander John G, Walker, United States Navy, is at the New York. 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